Improvement in seeding-machines



N. C. DAWSON.

Corn Planter.

No. 94,478. Patented Sept. 7, 1869.

made sufficiently large to receive the slides in.

nitrite-d fitters N. C. DAWSON, OF STEELES POST OFFICE, INDIANA.

Letters Patent No. 94,478, dated September 7, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEEDING-MACHINES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, N. C. DAWSON, of Steeles Post Oiiice, in the county of Rush, and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Seeding-Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is apian view of my planter.

Figure 2 is aside elevation of the same.

Figure 3 is a rear view, showing two of the four standards, with shovels attached.

The nature of my invention consists in the mode of operating the seed-boxes of a corn-planter, as herein set forth.

In the annexed drawings- A represents the axle.

B, the Wheels.

U G are the two beams, resting at their front end on the axle A, and attached by means of alink and staple to the cross-tie D, the said tie being supported at its centre by the tongue E, and strengthened near its ends by the bars 1 g.

The beams O O are fastened together by the ties h It.

F designates a cross-bar, each end of which is farnished with a slide, in, the said slides being allowed to play on the surface of beams C U, as hereinafter described.

H H represent theseed-boxes, which are firmly secured to the beams G C.

At the rear end of said boxes H H an opening is Near the inner end of said slides a hole is made, adapted in size to the number of grains to he used in plantiiw.

Through the bottom of seed-boxes a hole is made, near their inner end.

Directly above the said holes, a. board, t, is fastened, leaving spat-e beneath it for the slides m. to move as required.

In order to operate the slides in, the lever j is provided, the lower end of said lever being pivoted to tie h.

To the lever j, a metal rod, 7:, is booked, the other end of said rod being hooked in a staple in 1!.

By means of the lever j, the slides on will be moved forward until the'hole in said slides corresponds with the holes through the standards, and the grains of corn will have free passage to the earth. The object of board-t is to prevent any more grains from reaching the holes in standards G 0 than are contained in the holes in slides m.

s s represent two springs, one end of which is fastened to bar F, and the other end allowed to press against the outer end of seed-boxes H. The object of said springs is to force bar F back after the seed has been discharged in the manner above described.

G G designate the standards to which the shovels are attached.

Having thus described my invention,

\Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The hinged beams Q G, furnished with standards G, in combination with seed-boxes H, bar 1*, slides m, lever j, rod 7;, and springs s, the whole constructed, arranged, and operated substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I ,aiiix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses: N. O. DAWSON.

HENRY Hens, J os'nrn GEORGE. 

